17 July / 18 July / 19 July
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Day one 17 July
8:15 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 9:15
Welcoming Address
Asst Prof Dr Pitipong Yodmongkol, Vice-president, Chiang Mai University
9:15 – 9:30
Opening remarks by Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Director, Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
9:30 – 10:15
Introduction to “Decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies: Different Perspectives and Approaches” by Ian Baird, Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:15 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:00
Plenary – Keynote 1
“Overcoming Marginality: The Decolonizing Force of Zo Studies” Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:15 – 14:45
Panel 1
Room 1 (Inthanin)
Building the Boundless American Christian Empire: American Baptist Missionary Works in the Shan States in the Nineteenth Century
Sinae Hyun
Decolonial Discourses and the Islamization of Knowledge Project in Malaysia
Jonathan Yong Tienxhi
Decolonising SEA Studies: Beyond the Promises of Positionality. The Case of Southeast Asian Syncretic Religions
Jochem van den Boogert
Bahnar Youth’s Decolonial Aspiration: Engaging with the Church, Troubling the Village, and Comparing with the Kinh (Vietnam’s Ethnic Majority)
Huy Tran Phuoc Lam
Moderator: David Chu
Panel 2
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Bundok Promises: Drawing In Decolonization by Troubling Colonial Photography
Jose Santos Ardivilla
Co-producing Southeast Asia: Cinema, Decolonization and the Origins of a Region, 1950s-1960s
Darlene Machell Espeña
Films as a Method of Decolonization: Mobility, Borders, and History in Ann Hui’s Vietnam Trilogy
Siao-Yun Chen
Nonaligned Aesthetics: On Contemporary Vietnamese Art and Afro-Asian Diaspora
Justin Phan
Moderator: Lili Chen
Panel 3
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Seeing Primates/Making Primatology in Southeast Asia’s Peri-Urban Ecologies
Kymberley Chu
Animals don’t look at maps: cattle mobility and how a culinary landscape defines an area
Jiraporn Laocharoenwong
Reclaiming NarrativeResisting Land Grabs: Orang Asli Expressive Archives as Decolonization
Wen Di Sia
Moderator: Chusak Wittayapak
14:45 – 15:15
Break
15:15 – 16:45
Panel 4
Room 1 (Inthanin)
Yunnan as Inter-Asian Method – not quite “Chinese”, nor quite “Southeast Asian”
Simon Rowdder
Mutual Recursion: Decolonial Scholarship and Anti-Imperialist Campaigns in Southeast Asia
JPaul Manzanilla
Decolonizing Cold War Narratives: Takhli, American Military Base, and Societal Transformations
Morragotwong Phumplab
Thai Troops in (Laos) Secret War : Decolonizing the Nationalist Narrative of Thai Veterans
Sujane Kanparit
Moderator: Phillip Hirsch
Panel 5
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Disassembling Southeast Asia; On Geological Body, Bumantara and Decolonizing Southeast Asia
Fathun Karib
Internal Decolonization? Chiang Mai and other cities in the colonial margins of mainland SE Asia
Taylor Easum
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Archaeology Rethinking Power, Land, and Cultural Dynamics
Serena Autiero and Thundorn Kulkliang
Guided Consumption: Sarinah and the Remaking of Post-Colonial Consumer Space in Indonesia, 1950s–60s
Teuku Reza Fadeli
Moderator: Thiti Jamkajornkeiat
Panel 6
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Revisiting the Anticolonial/Identity Politics of the Malay Left
Christopher Choong
Decolonizing Democracy in the Bangsamoro: An Appreciative Inquiry of Muslim Governance
Madzween Joy De Asis
Malaya’s Anticolonial Movement in 1947
Zardas Lee
Counter Histories as Resistance: The Panglong Promises, Historical (Re)collections, and Ethnic Struggles in Myanmar
Ponpavi Sangsuradej
Moderator: Nwet Kay Khine
16:45 – 18:00
Film Screening 1
Room 1 (Inthanin)
The Purple Kingdom, 30.58 min
Pimpaka Towira, Thailand, 2016
Pipit dalam Badai (Sparrow in the Storm), 22 minutes, Van Luber Parensen, Indonesia, 2023
Film Screening 2
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Chuyện tử tế (The Story of Kindness or How to Behave), 43 minutes
Trần Văn Thuỷ, Vietnam, 1984
18:00 onward
Welcome reception
Day Two 18 July
9:00 – 10:15
Plenary – Keynote 2
“Can there be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies” Redux”
Thiti Jamkajornkeiat, University of Victoria
10:15 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
panel presentations
Panel 7
Room 1 (Inthanin)
Feminist research in an era of decoloniality: speaking with or speaking for other women?
Sara Niner
Indigenous Understanding and Experiences of Fluid and Diverse Sexualities in Timor-Leste
Lili Chen
“I have nothing, although I have a name” : Gender Perspectives in Interwar Vietnam’s Anti-Colonial Narratives, 1918-1939
Fionnuala Hughes
Excavating Silences: Myanmar Archaeology through a Gender-Conscious Approach
Jay Mok
Moderator: Nora Taylor
Panel 8
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Imaginary Decolonization: Seapunk & The Search For Authentic Southeast Asian Solarpunk Futures
Jules Yim
Decolonizing Research in the Eastern Himalayas: Collaborative Innovations at the Highland Institute
Tümüzo Katiry
Interdisciplinarity as an Effort to Decolonize Southeast Asian Studies
Van Phuc Nguyen
Decolonizing the knowledge production of Southeast Asian ‘traditional’ architecture
Ofita Purwani
Moderator: Simon Rowedder
Panel 9
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Dilemma in Decolonial Museology: Vietnam’s Museum and Minority Narratives
Pin-Hua Chou
Decolonizing Catholicism : A Case Study of Museo de Intramuros, Philippines
Nuttawat Unjitlerd
Confluence as Decolonial Practice: Reimagining Exhibition-Making Process in Southeast Asia
John Paul Diciembre
Decolonizing Historical Narratives: A Visual Study of Malaysia-Thailand Relations Through the Lens of the National Archives of Thailand
Riswadi Bin Azmi
Moderator: Sinae Hyun
12:00 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:45
panel presentations
Panel 10
Room 1 (Inthanin)
The ‘Footnotes in History’: History Curricula as Tools for Decentering and Decolonization
Joao Paulo Reginaldo
Isabelo de los Reyes, Revolutionary Ethnography, and the End of Spanish Colonial Rule in the Philippines
Nikolai Russegger
Decolonizing historical knowledge in the Philippines: Local history as a critique
Luis Zuriel Domingo
On the Tragedy of Cambodian Historiography
Lina Chhun
Moderator: Taylor Easum
Panel 11
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
When Will Vietnamese Literature Win a Nobel?: Decolonizing Mentalities in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature
Quyen Nguyen
Decolonization Through Language Policies: A Comparative Study Between the Philippines and Indonesia
Eustaquio III Barbin
Decolonizing Digital Literacy to Reinforce Democracy in the Age of Mis-/Disinformation
Mia Angeline
Southeast Asia: Regional Perspectives?
Meng Vong
Moderator: Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk
Panel 12
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Decolonizing Heritage: Self-Determination, Values, and Politics of the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines
Yi-Chin Wu
Beyond the Colonial Lens: Restoring Indigenous Wisdom in Indonesian Scholarship
Ahmad Sabirin
For Whom Are Indigenous Southeast Asian Studies?
Aree Worawongwasu
Moderator: Micah Morton
14:45 – 15:00
break
15:00 – 16:30
panel presentations
Panel 13
Room 1 (Inthanin)
What was Indochinese about the Indochina College of Fine Art? A Case Study in Decolonizing Southeast Asian Art History
Nora Taylor
Reframing Singapore: Decolonising Narratives from the National Museum Art Gallery and Singapore Art Museum (1976 to 1996)
Adrian Tan
Initial Construction of a Cross-National Art Histories: A Study of ASEAN Symposium on Aesthetics (1989-1995)
Sarena Abdullah
The Paradox of Decolonizing Art History in Southeast Asia’
Jay Mok
Moderator: Mukdawan Sakboon
Panel 14
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Imagining the Roots: Austronesian Studies in Pantayong Pananaw as Decolonization
Roland Macawili
Reclaiming Historical Identity: Decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies through Tausug Narratives
Fahadz Lulu
Samuel K. Tan and His Role in Decolonizing Philippine Muslim Historiography
Jasper Christian Gambito
Sunken Archives, Open Windows: Loss and Salvage in a Southeast Asian ‘Sea of Islands’
Simon Layton & Hana Qugana
Moderator: Kwanchewan Buadaeng
Panel 15
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Rethinking Epistemologies: Exploring Alternative Knowledge Practices
Arpita Mitra
Theses on Southeast Asian Theory
Antonette Arogo
Nuancing Decoloniality: Revisiting Marcos’s Tadhana Project and the Ambivalence of the Decolonial Critique
Rommel Curaming
Tracing A Queer Cambodian Genealogy Through Embodied Memory
Vanna Nauk
Moderator: Amporn Jirattikorn
Day Three 19 July
9:00 – 10:30
panel presentations
Panel 16
Room 1 (Inthanin)
On Decoloniality/Epistemic Reconstruction: Languages, Concepts and Praxis
Provincializing the Universal: Reflecting on Conceptual History and theEpistemic Decolonisation of Southeast Asia
Ariff Hafizi Radzi
Decoloniality as Praxis (?): (Incomplete) Decolonisation in West Papua and Timor Leste
Fachri Aidulsyah
Before Film, Beyond Language: Setan Jawa and the Limits of Categories
Jelena Golubovic
Moderator: panel organizers
Panel 17
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Outside Looking Across the Scholarly Borderlands: Perspectives from the Field of Southeast Asian American Studies
Thai American Oral History Project – Youth Empowerment through Heritage Language Learning
Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk
Discombobulation and Dispersion: Settlement Models and Responses in 20 th Century Asian America
Ivan V. Small
Diasporic Indigeneity in the United States, or, I Am An Igorot or A Moro, but NOT Filipino
Joseph Allen “JoJo” Ruanto-Ramirez
Shifting from Nation-State Teleologies Towards Cultural Studies of Vernacular Life: K-12 Vietnamese American Curricula and Digital Humanities
Cindy Anh Nguyen
Moderator: panel organizers
Panel 18
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Re-visiting the production of postcolonial citizenships of Indonesia and West Papua
Budi Hernawan
Decolonizing Historical Sources: Reviving Local Histories in Southeast Asia through Genealogy
Nabila Yasmin
Female Islamic Scholars and the Decolonization of Religious Knowledge in Java, Indonesia
Nor Ismah
From the Philippines to the Southeast Asia: Addressing Structural Epistemic Ignorance in Folk Knowledge as a Form of Decolonization
Patrick Joshua VIllegas
Moderator: Tyrell Haberkorn
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:15
panel presentations
Panel 19
Room 1 (Inthanin)
Pathways to Decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies: A view from Indigenous Studies
Micah Morton
Death Ritual of the Last King, a manufacturing of an infrapolitics in Xishuangbanna, where China meets Laos and Burma
Wasan Panyagaew
Beyond Settler-Colonial Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand: Reorienting Towards Tangata Whenua (Indigenous Peoples) as Southeast Asian Migrants
Etienne Wain & Ballerina Chong
Moderator: Prasit Leepreecha
Panel 20
Room 2 (FaiKham Room)
Workshop
“Decolonizing Translation: Public Scholarship and Southeast Asian Studies”
Tyrell Haberkorn
Moderator: Tyrell Haberkorn
Panel 21
Room 3 (Bua Tong Room)
Redefining International Border Regime from the Perspective of Indigenous Communities’ Interests in Indonesia-Malaysia Border Area
Sandy Nur Ikfal Raharjo
Can We Decolonize the so-called Non-Colonized Thailand?: A view from Thai-Cambodian Borderland
Khathaleeya Liamdee
Decolonizing Borders: The Indo-Myanmar Divide and Indigenous Rights in Southeast Asia
Hamtha Mukholee (online)
Moderator: Willen van Schendel
12:15 – 12:45
Closing remarks
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch